Residents of Kelebe Community in Olorunda Local Government Area of
Osun State on Sunday clashed with members of a sect whose religion is
considered strange by the people. Our correspondent gathered that members of the community, armed with
placards with various inscription stormed the worship centre of the sect
recently built in the area and asked them to relocate.
The sect known as Toriqat Satia Organisation is said to combine
Christianity with Islam and Traditional Religion in their mode of
worship. This is said to be unsettling the residents, who accused the
sect of being ritualists. The protest which involved the young and the old in Kelebe community
was targeted at the time members of the sect gathered for their own
worship.
It was gathered that some of the protesters had searched the worship
centre obviously to find things to link the sect with human rituals but
none was found. The ransacking of the place of worship was said to have
angered one of the sect leaders who engaged some of the residents in a
shouting match. The timely intervention of policemen at the scene prevented the place
from being razed down by some youths who were angered by the effrontery
of the sect members to challenge them.
The Chairman of Kelebe Community, Alhaji Ismail Adeniyi, was quoted
to have told the policemen who stormed the scene that the presence of
the sect was a threat to the residents who considers their religion
strange. Adeniyi said the community had written petition against the sect to
the police, the Department of State Service, Christian Association of
Nigeria and Muslim leaders.
He said that resident of Kelebe would seek all lawful means to ensure the relocation of the sect from the area. The Police Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Folasade Odoro, did not pick calls put across to her telephone by our correspondent.
She had yet to respond to the inquiry sent to her through text message as of the time of filing this report.
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